Indore water contamination: Official suspended over reference to ‘ghanta’ row

Key Highlights

• The officials said that the SDM had issued an order on Saturday (January 3, 2026) to deploy subordinate revenue staffers to maintain law and order in view of a Congress protest in Dewas on Sunday (January 4, 2026).
• “However, the wording of a portion of the Congress memorandum was copied verbatim in the SDM’s order issued for official purposes.
• This amounts to serious negligence,” a senior official told PTI.
• The Congress memorandum had targeted the BJP government in the State over the Indore drinking water crisis and said Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya’s use of the objectionable word ‘ghanta’ in response to a journalist’s question reflected “inhumanity and authoritarianism”.
• The memorandum, citing instructions of State Congress president Jitu Patwari, said party workers would hold ‘ghanta’ protests against this “inhuman behaviour” by ringing bells outside the residences of BJP MPs and MLAs across the State.